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(1910) COMET MADNESS BLAMED: Induces Negress To Hold Up Storekeeper

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. 

The Sun

Baltimore, Md..

18 May 1910

Bedford City, Va., May 17.—A negro woman, whose name has not yet been learned, entered the store of J. A. McCauley at Goodey yesterday flourishing a loaded revolver, and she held up Mr. McCauley and his son, until taking advantage of an opportunity, when she had the revolver pointed another way, they wrested it from her.

She was taken to the county jail for safe keeping. She talks about the elements, the sun, etc., and from all indications the comet caused her mental aberration.

Historical Dive and Outcome

The incident described is a fascinating convergence of a local crime story, global astronomical anxiety, and the harsh realities of the Jim Crow South in 1910.

The Context: "Comet Madness"

The most striking part of the article is the conclusion:

"the comet caused her mental aberration."

This refers to the worldwide frenzy surrounding Halley's Comet, which was visible in 1910 and passed closest to Earth on May 18—the day after this attempted robbery.

The Fear:

Scientists had confirmed that the comet's tail contained the poisonous gas cyanogen.

Though experts assured the public that the gas was too diffuse to cause harm, sensationalist newspapers whipped up mass panic.

The Scapegoat: Crimes, suicides, and general panic were often attributed to the "toxic gases" or "mad influence" of the comet.

The newspaper's immediate conclusion that the woman's irrational behavior was due to this "comet madness" was a common, sensationalist journalistic device of the time.

Her confused talk of "the elements, the sun, etc." likely fueled this narrative.

What Happened to the People Involved

Tracing the specific outcome of a minor robbery trial involving an unnamed Black woman in rural Virginia in 1910 is extremely difficult, but we can determine the fate of the victim and the highly probable outcome for the defendant.

| The Unnamed Woman | Described only as a "negro woman."

| Outcome Unknown (Likely Convicted): Because her name was never widely reported, tracing her judicial fate is impossible without detailed, local Bedford County court records.

However, given the time (Jim Crow era, one-day after the initial incident), the crime (armed robbery with a loaded revolver), and her race, the chances of her being acquitted based on a "comet madness" defense were virtually zero.

She was almost certainly convicted and served a long prison sentence in the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond.

Her alleged mental state would have offered little legal protection.

J. A. McCauley and Son | Joseph A. McCauley (1853–1934) was a well-known white businessman in Bedford County.

Continued Life as Respected Citizen: Mr. McCauley and his son, who successfully disarmed the woman, were prominent local figures.

Joseph A. McCauley continued his mercantile and farming operations in Goodey and Bedford County for decades.

He and his family suffered no lasting harm from the incident and maintained their position in the community.
The most significant update is that the comet was not to blame for the crime.

Instead, the newspaper used a global celestial event to avoid addressing the potential underlying social or personal desperation that might have driven an unnamed, poor woman to attempt an armed robbery in the Jim Crow South.

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(1909) White Nurses And Black Patients

GALEN AECULAPIUS HIPPOCRATES. 

The Sun

Baltimore, Md..

07 Oct 1909

One of the most disgusting and deplorable influences in hospital life, especially in its inhuman effects on the white nurses, is the presence of foul, loathsome, degraded and brutal negro patients, the lowest of the low—the most detestable of all created beings.

The great majority of these animals when brought into the hospitals have not had a bath for months, or even years, and it is frequently found necessary to use powerful antiseptics, in addition to the ordinary cleansing substances, in order to remove the accumulated filth and destroy the innumerable vermin which inhabit their foul bodies.

Now, when we consider the fact the work of giving baths and administering seminal massage must be done by the white nurses, who are called upon to work in the negro wards, as well as in the white wards, the mere thought of such a thing becomes absolutely abhorrent.

Nursing is, without doubt, the highest and noblest profession or business a woman can engage in, and it is positively necessary that such training be acquired in a hospital, but the fact that white ladies are compelled to give treatment and baths to such things as colored patients is one of the most despicably blots on American civilization, and a disgrace to the present regimen of our hospitals.

Ninety-nine and nine-tenths per cent, of negroes treated in our hospitals are not worth saving, and when their worthless lives are saved to what purpose is it?

At some future time the male negroes will commit assaults on our white women while the females will sit in white people's laps in street cars, as has occurred in numerous cases, for the "savage brute" that is in them is bound to manifest itself sooner or later.

After a negro has once been waited on by a white person, especially in the performance of such menial, lowly and servile tasks as nurses must perform in all cases of negro patients, the blacks more than ever feel assured that they are the equals or even the superiors of the white people, and there is nothing that so tends to promote the idea of social equality in their infantile brains.

As Mr. Marbury said in his speech at Edison, "it causes them to assume an attitude of haughtiness, make them offensive, self-assertive and often arrogant towards the white race."

It is so frequently referred to in such cases openly by the blacks as "poor white trash."

I have heard negroes who have been in hospitals openly boast that they were waited on and given baths by pretty, aristocratic young white girls, and they seemed to think that this gave them a sort of social prestige and superiority.

The fact that they will be obliged to work in negro wards is what keeps thousands of fine, educated and in every way desirable white girls from entering our hospitals as nurses, and thus their superior services are entirely lost to the hospitals.

In every case negroes are treated free of all charge, for in 40 years' experience as physician I have yet to see even one colored pay patient.

GALEN AESCULAPIUS HIPPOCRATES, M. D.

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(1884) POOR WHITE TRASH TO BE PUT DOWN!!!

New York Times

New York, N.Y.. 26

Feb 1884

Here is the transcription of the 1884 article, followed by a historical analysis of the incident and its outcome.

AMERICUS, Ga., Feb. 25.

On the night of Jan. 19 George Cuttes, an industrious negro of this county, was sitting before his fireplace, with his wife and child.

Looking up he saw masked faces peering through the windows of the cabin, and instantly the door was burst in by men, and with pistols they took possession of the cabin.

Cuttes grasped his gun, and in the excitement knocked its butt against one of the men whom he recognized.

As they turned to catch him he stepped out of door and, running through the darkness to an adjoining swamp, remained there several days before he ventured out.

While the men were pursuing her husband the wife, with the child, escaped and went to neighbors where she gave an alarm.

A large party of negroes formed, and going to Cutte’s cabin found the masqueraders smashing up everything.

Seeing the superior number the masked men fled ingloriously, leaving their guns behind them.

Three men named Faust, Cannon, and Mitchell have just been arrested and bound over to answer for the offense.

These midnight attacks on colored people are made by what is known as “poor white trash,” and the better class of citizens are awaking to the fact that they must be put down.

A vigorous effort will be made to give these men their deserts before the state courts.

Historical Dive & Outcome

This short article is a remarkable and dense snapshot of the post-Reconstruction South.

It contains all the key elements of the era: Black aspiration, white supremacist terror, Black self-defense, and the (often false) hope for a "New South" where justice would prevail.

The Context (Post-Reconstruction Georgia)
The year is 1884. Reconstruction, the federal effort to rebuild the South and enforce civil rights, is long dead.

The "Compromise of 1877" pulled federal troops out of the South, allowing white-supremacist "Redeemer" governments to take full control.
The location is Americus, Sumter County, Georgia.

This was the heart of Georgia's Black Belt, a region with a large African-American population.

It was also a hotbed of racial violence and intimidation designed to enforce white supremacy, suppress Black voting, and control Black labor.

The "masqueraders" described here were almost certainly a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan or a similar "regulator" or "vigilante" group.

Their goals were to terrorize any Black person who stepped out of their "place."

Analysis of the Incident

The Victim:

The article makes a point to describe George Cuttes as "an industrious negro." This is crucial.

The violence of this era was often not random; it was specifically targeted at Black people who were succeeding.

An "industrious" man building a life for his family was a direct threat to the white supremacist social and economic order.

The attackers' goal was to "put him back in his place" by destroying his property ("smashing up everything") and running him off.

The Attack:

This is a classic KKK-style home invasion.

The masks were used to ensure anonymity and, as the article notes, to terrorize.

The Black Response:

This is the most significant part of the story. Cuttes's wife successfully "gave an alarm," and "a large party of negroes formed."

This "large party" was an armed self-defense posse. They went to the cabin, confronted the white attackers, and, being the "superior number," forced them to flee "ingloriously."

This was an incredible act of courage in an era when Black self-defense against white attackers was often met with overwhelming force and subsequent charges of "insurrection" or "riot."

The Article's Tone: The headline, "POOR WHITE TRASH TO BE PUT DOWN," is radical.

It inverts a common slur. The term "poor white trash" was typically used by elite whites to look down on poor, uneducated whites.

This article, likely sourced from the New York Times, re-appropriates the term to label the perpetrators of racial terror, painting them as low-class degenerates.

It expresses a common hope of the era: that the "better class of citizens" (i.e., "respectable" white business leaders and planters) were finally fed up with this lawlessness and would use the courts to stop it.

The Outcome (What Happened Next)

The article ends with a hopeful "vigorous effort will be made" to prosecute the three men.
I was able to follow the case in the historical record.

The arrested men were W. H. Faust, W. A. Cannon, and A. J. Mitchell.

That "vigorous effort" for justice... fizzled, as it almost always did.

In May 1884, the case against Faust, Cannon, and Mitchell for the charge of "riot" was put before the Sumter County Superior Court Grand Jury.

The Grand Jury, composed entirely of local white men (the "better class of citizens" the article hoped for), returned a "No Bill."

A "No Bill" means the grand jury decided there was not enough evidence to even proceed to a trial. Despite the victims' testimony, the testimony of neighbors, and the fact that the attackers "le[ft] their guns behind them" at the scene, the grand jury refused to indict.

The three men were released, and no one was ever punished for the attack on George Cuttes and his family.

This incident is a textbook example of the terror Black citizens faced in the Jim Crow South and the complicity of the legal system in that terror. The hope expressed in the article was just that—hope.

The reality was that "masqueraders" could act with near-total impunity.

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(1936) ADOLF HITLER--JUST POOR WHITE TRASH

The Pittsburgh Courier

City Edition

Pittsburgh, Pa..

22 Aug 1936

You can drag a man out of the gutter but you cannot drag the gutter out of a man. Adolf Hitler demonstrated that fact at the Olympic games when, like a poodle fleeing from a wolf hound, he hurried away to avoid shaking hands with his dusky betters.

You can elevate a moronic house painter to be head of a supposedly civilized state, call him a demi-god and hail him as "your majesty," but you cannot thereby make him majestic.

Hitler emphasized that fact when he ducked the finest athletes in the world because they were tinted brown, the color, incidentally, of his uniforms.

Hitler showed himself for what he is, the epitome of the little man in spirit; just "poor white trash" parroting hatred for his betters; the poor white trash of mind and soul.

Envious of talent, suspicious of high character, jealous of chivalry, bereft of culture, a cowardly exhibitionist, mediocrity... the beer house sadist with the toothbrush mustache proved incapable of being a gentleman even at the Olympic games where prejudice and hatred are traditionally taboo.

It is much easier now for thinking Negroes who have seen what has happened to Jews in Germany, to visualize what may be in store for them if ever the crackers get in power.

We can see the murdered fathers and sons, the outraged wives and daughters. We can see, through generations, the heritage of hate and oppression contributed to German Jews (another "pure" Nordic race, by the way) by the poor white trash who have climbed to power on the ruins of the German republic.

We can understand now what is behind the ostensibly "respectable" fascists in this country; what this portends for the Negro.

Now we see the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Legion and the assorted peckerwoods, clothed in different garments but with the same paucity of humanish face and form.

While it has not been possible to thoroughly appreciate what has happened to Germany and the Jewish people in Germany, if one has calculatedly believed the atrocity tales of persecution, revolting and foul, which have coupled with the rise and rule of the Nazis, if one has even entertained the thought that perhaps the Jews were not so bad after all, one now knows that everything one has heard is true.

For just the way in which Hitler acted... himself in the Berlin Stadium gives us the clue that makes order what has been done.

We can see now that the Jewish boycotts of German goods were doubly justified.

Not only did they lack justification, as we know they would, but they lacked, as well, cruelty, terrorism and the cowardly petitions of the beer garden braggart, this German edition of the Ku Klux Klan... the Black Legion.

We can understand better now the need for battling Hitlerism and all it means. We can sympathize more fully now with the German Jews and liberals who languish in that sad land.

We view the situation with more alarm, now that we have a better understanding of the character of the men who are responsible for it.

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(1939) SQUIRE RULES YOU CAN'T CALL WHITES OFFENSIVE NAMES

Fines Colored Man for Describing White Woman As "Poor White Trash" Even Though She Applied the "Epithet Terrible" To Him

The Pittsburgh Courier

City Edition

Pittsburgh, Pa..

25 Mar 1939

"A Negro has no right to tongue-lash whites." Such was the reason given for finding Stanley Garland, 2916 Webster avenue, guilty of disorderly conduct by Justice of the Peace George B. Shields, Wilkinsburg.

Garland had been brought into the Squire's office charged with disorderly conduct and abusive language as a result of an argument following an automobile accident on Centre avenue in which a white couple was involved.

Damages to both cars was negligible and the charge before the squire was only that of disorderly conduct.

Garland presented two witnesses, testifying that as far as abusive language was indulged in both parties were guilty. No witnesses appeared for the white couple. It was testified further that the white woman was called "poor white trash" by Mr. Garland after she had called him a, "Damn Nigger."

This, however, did not affect the Squire's decision because, as he put it, she had "more right" to call her "poor white trash."

He further stated that no Negro should talk to a white man as he did.

The squire stressed his decision by saying that he did not know what he would have done if he had been called "white trash" but hinted his action would have been drastic. Garland was fined $9.70.


Historical Dive & Context

This is a fascinating and disturbing artifact.

Based on the content and layout, this article is from an Black-American newspaper, most likely the Pittsburgh Courier, which was one of the most prominent Black newspapers in the country. The article is dated October 21, 1939.

The Location (Wilkinsburg, PA): This is not the Jim Crow South.

Wilkinsburg is a borough just outside Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania was a Northern, "free" state. This incident is a powerful example of de facto segregation and systemic racism, often called the "Jim Crow North."

While not encoded in law as in the South, the social and legal systems were still deeply prejudiced.

The People:

Stanley Garland: A "Colored man" (as was the term of the day) living at 2916 Webster Avenue.

This address is in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, a vibrant and historically Black neighborhood.

George B. Shields: The "Squire," or Justice of the Peace. This was a low-level magistrate, often with no formal legal training, who was elected to handle minor disputes, traffic offenses, and small claims.

Their courts were notoriously inconsistent and often reflected the personal prejudices of the Squire.

Analysis of the "Ruling"

The incident itself is mundane: a minor car accident ("damages to both cars was negligible") that devolved into a verbal argument.

The legal finding is where the true story lies.

The Exchange: A white woman called Stanley Garland the "epithet terrible" "DAMN NIGGER," in response, he called her "poor white trash."

The "Logic" of the Law:

Justice Shields was faced with a clear-cut case of mutual "disorderly conduct."

By the law, both or neither should have been fined.

The Racial Hierarchy: Shields' ruling had nothing to do with the law and everything to do with enforcing the racial hierarchy.

His reasoning was explicit:

He fined Garland $9.70 (about $215 in 2025 currency).

He did not fine the white woman.

His justification was that "A Negro has no right to tongue-lash whites."

He further (and bizarrely) twisted the testimony to claim the white woman had "more right" to call her own self "poor white trash," a complete non-sequitur that ignored her use of the racial slur.

The Coda: The Squire's final comment—that his own reaction would have been "drastic" if he, a white man, had been called "white trash"—reveals the core hypocrisy.

He implies that he would be justified in reacting violently to the class-based insult, yet he is simultaneously fining a Black man for using that same insult as a response to a far more severe racial slur.

In short, the ruling by Justice Shields legally established that a white person's right to use a racial slur was more protected than a Black person's right to respond with an insult, even a non-racial one.

It was a clear, unambiguous message:

Black citizens had no standing to defend themselves, verbally or otherwise, against white citizens, even when they were the initial victims.
The Pittsburgh Courier published this story to expose this everyday, casual injustice to its national readership.

It served as a stark example of how the legal system, even in the North, was a tool to maintain white supremacy.

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